Daniel T. Bourne

Jung and Phenomenology with Roger Brooke, PhD

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Roger Brooke joins us to discuss his book, Jung and Phenomenology. We hope you enjoy. Jung and Phenomenology: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415097126?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback AI Generated Description: What if phenomenology is a radically practical way to see guilt, dreams, symbols, and therapy more clearly? In this conversation, Roger Brooke explores how a phenomenological lens changes our understanding of psychology and Jungian thought from the way guilt appears differently to a priest, a policeman, or a therapist, to why the “elephant in the room” may be the most important phenomenon present. Daniel guides the discussion through Brooke’s book Jung and Phenomenology, examining phenomenology as a method of setting aside assumptions and studying experience on its own terms. Brooke shares vivid clinical examples to explain how mood, interpretation, and unconscious patterns shape the world we inhabit. Together, they explore: What phenomenology is and how it can be used in psychotherapy Why therapists should listen more and hold theory lightly How guilt becomes a whole way of being in the world The relationship between Jung and phenomenological psychology The distinction between psyche and mind How dreams and nightmares reveal what is calling for our attention Why archetypes are better understood as potentials for being in the world The transformative power of symbols The embodied nature of psychological experience Jung’s concept of synchronicity and its philosophical limitations Ancestral presence, object relations, and the meaning of lived experience This is a rich and provocative conversation about how meaning appears in everyday life and why psychology can miss something essential when it reduces experience to theory alone. A thought-provoking listen for anyone interested in Jung, phenomenology, depth psychology, psychotherapy, symbolism, dreams, and the nature of the psyche.

The Only Cure with Mark Solms

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Ever wonder why most treatments only mask symptoms instead of addressing the root cause? Here’s a truth that might shake your beliefs about mental health: "The talking cure is still the only real one we have in psychiatry." In a world dominated by medications and quick fixes, many fail to realize that these solutions often just suppress feelings without solving underlying issues. 1. Most psychiatric treatments only aim to suppress symptoms, meaning once you stop, they return. 2. True healing (like what psychoanalysis offers) addresses the causes of mental health struggles, leading to lasting change. 3. Remarkably, the benefits of talking therapy often continue after the treatment ends, as patients find ongoing improvement. Let’s shift our focus from temporary relief to genuine healing. Purchase your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Cure-Neuroscience-Mental-Healing/dp/B0FWZXMHF1/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Vera Camden on Literature & Psychoanalysis

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Vera J. Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, and a training and supervising analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. Her work focuses on the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis, and she edited The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis, bringing together leading scholars to explore how literary texts and psychoanalytic theory continue to illuminate one another. We hope you enjoy this conversation. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Jeffrey Berman, PhD, on Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Writing

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Jeffrey Berman's primary teaching and research interests are in literature and psychoanalysis, the twentieth century novel, trauma theory, suicide, self-disclosing writing and pedagogy. Berman, Jeffrey (1985). The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis. Berman, Jeffrey (1990). Narcissism and the novel. Berman, Jeffrey (2012). Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning. Berman, Jeffrey (2019). Writing the Talking Cure: Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of Psychotherapy. Berman, Jeffrey; Mosher, Paul W. (2019). Off the tracks: cautionary tales about the derailing of mental health care. Berman, Jeffrey (2021). The art of caregiving in fiction, film, and memoir. Berman, Jeffrey (2022). Norman N. Holland: The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary Critics. Berman, Jeffrey (2024). Psychoanalytic Memoirs. Berman, Jeffrey (2024). Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective. Berman, Jeffrey (2024). Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis. We hope you enjoy this conversation. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Freud and Trauma Theory - Karl Stukenberg, PhD

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Karl Stukenberg, Ph.D., ABPP, has been a faculty member at Xavier for over 25 years. His undergraduate education was at St. John’s College – the Great Books school in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was trained as a Clinical Psychologist at The Ohio State University, with an Internship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His three years of post-doctoral training were in psychological assessment and treatment in tertiary care settings at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. Once at Xavier, he trained to become a psychoanalyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. We hope you enjoy this conversation. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Sandra Steingard, MD, on her Deconstruction of Psychiatry

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Sandra Steingard, M.D. is an American psychiatrist, long-time leader in community mental health, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. She served for many years as Chief Medical Officer at the Howard Center in Vermont and is a prominent voice in the critical psychiatry movement, editing the book Critical Psychiatry: Controversies and Clinical Implications and serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Community Mental Health Journal. Her work focuses on re-examining mainstream psychiatric assumptions, integrating lived experience, and promoting thoughtful, humane approaches to care. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Chemically Imbalanced? An Interview with Psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Joanna Moncrieff is a psychiatrist, researcher, and author based at University College London. Her work examines the foundations of modern psychiatric practice, especially our assumptions about how psychiatric drugs work and why we use them. For decades, the dominant idea has been the disease-centred model: the view that mental disorders are caused by underlying chemical abnormalities, and medications correct those abnormalities. Moncrieff's research challenges this perspective. Instead, she proposes the drug-centred model, which understands psychiatric drugs as substances that create altered mental and emotional states. She views these as states that may sometimes suppress or shift distress, but do not “fix” an underlying chemical imbalance. She is the author of several books, including The Myth of the Chemical Cure, The Bitterest Pills, A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs, and her most recent, Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. You can find this here: https://www.amazon.com/Chemically-Imbalanced-Making-Unmaking-Serotonin-ebook/dp/B0F6PV3KDW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._zaXX8KNlICSU-AUiQzNDq7bgfP19KkXt4L2eCTNmrg.DbyYPE6F4dskAkKDMhKIOqnSJHBeZWjCUnL6pw-BZEM&qid=1764018539&sr=8-2 Her website: https://joannamoncrieff.com/ Critical Psychiatry Network (of which she is a co-chair): https://www.criticalpsychiatry.co.uk/about-us/ Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Ashok Bedi, MD, Jungian Psychoanalysis and the East

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Dr. Ashok Bedi is a Jungian psychoanalyst and board-certified psychiatrist, trained in India, Great Britain, and the United States. He serves as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, a faculty member at the Carl G. Jung Institute of Chicago, and a psychiatrist within the Aurora Health Care Network. With over thirty years of practice in Milwaukee, he specializes in adult psychotherapy and Jungian analysis, integrating spirituality and healing in his work. Dr. Bedi is the author of several books on psychology and spirituality and lectures internationally, also leading Jungian training programs and study groups in India. Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ashok-Bedi/author/B001K8AWZE?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=50f31ee6-3086-449a-a224-6b5eda1e1d3d Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Mark Solms, PhD, on Neuropsychoanalysis and Revising the Standard Edition of Freud's Writings

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Mark Solms is a South African neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst best known as a founder of the field of neuropsychoanalysis. His work focuses on integrating Freudian psychoanalytic theory with modern neuroscience to understand consciousness and the brain mechanisms of dreaming. LINKS More on neuropsychoanalysis here: https://npsa-association.org/ Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Psychoanalysis & LOVE with Mihaela Bernard, MA, LCPC

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Mihaela Bernard, MA, LCPC, is a licensed clinical professional counselor and a certified child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist, specializing in working with children and adolescents, and parents of children and adolescents with special needs. LINKS https://www.mishabernard.com/about-me.html https://www.penumbrajournal.org/podcast Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

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Robert Whitaker on America's History with Psychiatry

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Join us as American journalist and author, Robert Whitaker, discusses his work as detailed in Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, exposing the troubling history and consequences of psychiatric treatment in America. He discusses how psychiatry’s shift from moral treatment to medication-driven care, fueled by media hype and pharmaceutical influence, has led to an “iatrogenic epidemic” of chronic mental illness. Whitaker critiques the overstated promises of drugs like Thorazine and Prozac, which were claimed to “empty hospitals” but often worsened long-term outcomes. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation challenging conventional wisdom and advocating for a reevaluation of mental health care. LINKS https://www.madinamerica.com/ Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Richard Sweeney, PhD, Jungian Analyst and Former Roman Catholic Priest

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Andrew Christensen, PhD, Couple's Therapy with IBCT

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US I hope you enjoy this interview with Andrew Christensen, PhD, and one of the developer of Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy (IBCT). His Website: https://drandrewchristensen.com/ PESI courses: https://www.pesi.com/item/integrative-behavioral-couple-therapy-ibct-utilizing-deep-assessment-target-couples-distress-zach-145404 Resources: https://ibct.psych.ucla.edu/resources/ IBCT Book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/integrative-behavioral-couple-therapy-andrew-christensen/1134861728 Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.https://drandrewchristensen.com/

The Archetype of the Alcoholic with Cody Peterson

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US I hope you enjoy this interview with Cody Peterson on his book, The Shadow of a Figure of Light: the Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment. His Website: https://www.cody-peterson.com/ Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Sigmund Freud Volumes 9 and 10: Quotes and Thoughts

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Sigmund Freud's analysis of Jensen's Gradiva is part of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume IX-X. Article by Robert Lloyd Goldstein: https://jaapl.org/content/jaapl/11/3/273.full.pdf Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Erick Turner, MD: Psychiatrist, Researcher, and Former FDA Reviewer on Antidepressant Efficacy

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US I hope you enjoy this interview with Erick Turner, MD. Some Articles: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa065779 https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/03/making-a-silk-purse-out-of-a-sows-ear-erick-turner-on-how-bad-research-practices-are-undermining-our-health/ Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Jim Gottstein and the Zyprexa Papers: Exposing Corruption

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US "The Zyprexa Papers is a comprehensive presentation of a powerful sequence of events in which Jim Gottstein exposed a pharmaceutical company whose antipsychotic medication could harm psychiatric patients." - Michael Warren Cornwall, Book Review I hope you enjoy this interview with Jim Gottstein. PsychRights - http://psychrights.org/ Mindfreedom International - https://mindfreedom.org/ Elyn Saks - https://gould.usc.edu/faculty/profile/elyn-saks/ Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Flawed Science, Twin Studies, and Schizophrenia with Jay Joseph, PsyD

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US I hope you enjoy this interview on Dr. Joseph's work. You can find his website here: https://jayjoseph.net/ Schizophrenia and Genetics: https://www.amazon.com/Schizophrenia-Genetics-Jay-Joseph/dp/1032275502 Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

Interview with Psychiatrist Ronald Pies, MD., on the Treatment of Mental Disorders

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US I apologize for any poor audio and no video. We had technical difficulties. I hope you enjoy the conversation, nonetheless. Dr Pies is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; and Editor in Chief Emeritus of Psychiatric Times (2007-2010). Dr Pies is the author of several books. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ronald-W.-Pies/author/B001HCU3SY?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=a7c6f7ea-8218-47ac-8e44-552060df69b4 Psychiatric Times: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/authors/ronald-w-pies-md Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

A Psychological View of Atonement Theory: a Jungian, Adlerian, and Classical Analyst

To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Drs. Ken James, Erik Mansager, and Donald Carveth join me for a conversation on the psychological theory of atonement in Christianity. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.